{"id":51931,"date":"2015-03-30T22:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T03:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51931"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T04:04:19","slug":"lucas-matthysse-ruslan-provodnikov-shocker-i-am-going-to-beat-provodnikov-like-rocky-did-ivan-drago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51931","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Matthysse &#8211; Ruslan Provodnikov SHOCKER: &#8220;I am Going to Beat Provodnikov Like Rocky did Ivan Drago&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51931\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-51932 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/LM.jpg\" alt=\"LM\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>If I were Lucas Matthysse, I would say, &#8220;I am going to beat Provodnikov like Rocky did Ivan Drago&#8221; &#8212; Buddy Ruffin, JR. (President of the Lucas Matthysse Fan Club Coffeyville, KS Chapter.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Junior welterweight stars Lucas \u201cLa Maquina\u201d Matthysse (36-3, 34 KOs) and \u201cThe Siberian Rocky\u201d Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) participated in an international media conference call on Monday to talk about their April 18 showdown at The Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Their twelve-round fight will be televised live as part of a split site doubleheader on HBO.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lucas Matthysse: \u201cI\u2019m glad to be facing fighters of the caliber of Ruslan Provodnikov\u2026I\u2019m ready to fight a tough fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome April 18 the world will know that the best 140-pounders will be fighting that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ruslan Provodnikov: \u201cI\u2019m not saying I\u2019m better than Matthysse or anyone else. I just know I can beat anybody\u2026I\u2019m going to do my talking in the ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[On Freddie Roach not being in his corner on fight night] \u201cEverything is fine. It\u2019s not the first time Roach will not be in my corner for a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were Lucas Matthysse, I would say, &#8220;I am going to beat Provodnikov like Rocky did Ivan Drago&#8221; &#8212; Buddy Ruffin, JR. (President of the Lucas Matthysse Fan Club Coffeyville, KS Chapter.) Junior welterweight stars Lucas \u201cLa Maquina\u201d Matthysse (36-3, 34 KOs) and \u201cThe Siberian Rocky\u201d Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) participated in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12515],"class_list":["post-51931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ruslan-provodnikov-shocker-i-am-going-to-beat-provodnikov-like-rocky-did-ivan-drago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51931"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}